The Adams administration is in talks to convert the historic Manhattan hotel, located at 45 East 45th Street, into an emergency shelter as the city grapples with the ongoing surge of migrants.
Hundreds of asylum seekers could be poised to reside at New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel in the coming weeks, with the Big Apple eying a deal to turn the iconic building into its latest migrant shelter, The Post has learned.
Multiple construction and cleaning crews were spotted coming-and-going from the hotel lobby on Tuesday, including a handful of workers who were spiffing up the front entrance. Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images He added that some workers were tasked with setting up an intake facility in the hotel’s once-grand lobby.
“It’s an iconic location worthy of preservation and this is helping to solve two problems at the same time by preserving it as a hotel and addressing an ongoing crisis but we have to make sure that opening a location of this size is done in an appropriate fashion,” Powers said. The site has remained dormant ever since it was shuttered three years ago due to the financial fallout of the pandemic.
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